Welcome to the Weekly Wine Quiz! This week, things are going to get decidedly odd, but then you’ve come to expect that here, haven’t you? Standard disclaimer: based on feedback from ever-so-vocal-and-intelligent peeps like you, I supply the quiz question each week, but I do *not* supply the quiz answer immediately. It’s YOU who supply…
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Winemaking, Sashimi Style (Melville Estate Recent Releases)
“We don’t make wine. We grow wine. We’re more like ‘sashimi style’ winemaking.” On a cool morning that will later turn into a blustering day in the midst of a small August heat wave, Chad Melville seemed to be feeding me what ought to be a standard marketing line about winemaking. The kind that end…
Thirty Days Of The Other (Tasty) Side Of Bordeaux
I haven’t always been kind to Bordeaux. Okay, actually I’ve pretty much never been kind to Bordeaux. But that’s because Bordeaux’s most visible stand-bearers – the classified growths at the high-end of the production spectrum, making wines that most of us 99%-ers cannot afford – hasn’t really been all that kind itself to the general…
Wines Of The Southern Hemisphere (Giveaway!)
My friends the World Wine Guys (aka Mike DeSimone and Jeff Jenssen) have been busy lately, it seems. First, they publish the Fire Island Cookbook just in time for Summer, and now that Summer is coming to a close they’re already back on the shelves with another well-executed tome, Wines Of The Southern Hemisphere (Sterling…